Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-12-08
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

A board Of trade has been organized
at Huron with w. T. Love rs presi-
dent.
A writer In Bradstreet's calls atten-
ton to the ~stupendons fact tina
when ons-third OF the area OF Dakota
is used for wheat-growing. the crop.
with q smaller average yield per acre
than the territory has ever known,
will be $50, 00o,0 600 or 370,oO0,oO
bushels a year.
The secretary of the interior has re-
versed the decision of the commission
er OF the general land Office in the case
of Alvina Yeutsch vs.. Alma Ryan,
involving land in the Watertown
tDak.1 district. This gives Miss
Yertscb, who entered the land and
made improvements, authority to
take the land.
The event OF the season at BIS
marck. was the Booster" banquet
at the Sheridan house. About n
hundred citizens, men only, were pres
CAtGs VI I'll y
ed to and the menu was elaborate.
Judge Trip has rendered a judg.
ment at So, 400 for the plaintiff in the
long-drawn.out partnership litigation
between o. r. Belts and George Z.
Letcher of Mitchell, formerly in hard
ware business.
A party of surveyors of the Manito-
ba road is now running a line from
Halsted, Mimi. the present terminus
| OF the Moorhead & Northern branch,
to Caledonia and thence westward.
Several branches of Lutherans in
the neighborhood of Brcokings are
trying to effect a union of sentiment
as well as of church service.
1t is generally understood that the
South Dakota conference has decided
to locate their seminary at Brookings.
and the citizens are prepared TO well
come that institution In a substan-
tial n
The Farmers Mutual Protective
association mailed from Planking.
ton over 1000 drafts, covering all
parts of Dakota, in payment for hail
losses for this year. The total aggre-
gate of these drafts is $4,000.
This association will make a further
payment Of over $4,000 early this
month.
The Prohibitionists have called g.
county convention in Huron, for Dec.
ID to arrange for enforcing the local
| option law after Dec. 81. The Pro-
hibition alliance will immediately is
sue a call for a South Dakota Prohibit
ton conference to be held al Huron
Dec. 15 for the purpose OF organizing
for next years campaign.
The "snap" of the last of Novem-
Der was the coolest ever recorded for
that month.
Mr.. John Gowan and daughter were
asphyxiated by coal gas at Huron.
Mr.. Gowan was dead when found and
the daughter cannot recover.
P. d. Lyon, editor and proprietor
of Public Opinion, a weekly newspa-
per published in Waterfowl, had a
suit for criminal libel brought against
him by George E. Taylor. The at
tack, when published, caused quite a
fiutter in society circles, as Taylor
was employed three years ago as clerk
in the United States land office at
WATERFOWL and moved IN the best
circles, but like other things excite
49, nod aIo,,E Itoa1 a, .Ln., nf..-
lor arrived from Boston and at nee
commenced action.
The Ward county election case,
which arose from throwing out the
vote of Minot precinct in the recent
election upon certain affidavits alleg-
Ing illegal votes were cast, is before
Jddge Franfs on application OF John
b. WellcofH of Minot for a writ of
mandamuS compelling the canvassing
board to reassemble and canvass
such vote.A The case has caused con-
siderable Interest from the fact that
the throwing out of the Minot vote
gave a majority in the county for pro-
hibition, while otherwise license would
have prevailed by $50 majority.
At a meeting of the Dakota Stock
Breeders Association at jamestown,
officers were elected as follows: Pres
ident, c. j. Ailoway, Grand Forks;
vice president, f. G. Eagerly. Aber-
deem; secretary, Oscar P. Kemp.
Watertown; treasurer. A. o. johnson.
Montrose; directors to fill expired
terms. !. c. Wade. jamestown, and
Thomas David, Mitchell. WATERFOWL
was elected as the place for the next
meeting.